Jordan Treakle
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Jordan Treakle is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of FLO Food.
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Have you smelled the little piggies?
In eastern North Carolina, citizens and students rise up for environmental justice 4
Posted 1 year, 3 months agoFew places in the world have been pooped on more than Eastern North Carolina in the past 20 years. As jobs in textiles and tobacco moved out over the past few decades, the hog industry moved in, bringing with it the source of the poop: 10 million hogs on 2,300 farms, producing about 19 million tons of waste per year. This waste is stored in huge, open pits called lagoons and then sprayed on surrounding fields, which causes the stench to waft for miles around.